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Double Victory
The Museum of Flight Magazine
VOLUME 27, NUMBER 1
JAN/ FEB 2005
Double Victory
Tuskegee Heroes Share Their
Struggles and Triumphs
Mastery in Miniature
Northwest Scale Modelers
Display Their Craft 2 Aloft
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A
t the opening of each new year, I like to take a moment to re ect on the year that
has passed and to look forward to the coming year. The Museum had one of its most
memorable years to date in 2004. We have grown tremendously and have enjoyed record
visitor turnouts throughout the past year. The arrival of Concorde and the opening of the
Personal Courage Wing are two of the most visible elements of this spectacular growth.
With these amazing additions, we have emerged as a museum truly deserving of national
and international acclaimand we have received it.
2004 also witnessed a remarkable expansion of educational offerings here at the Museum.
We have stepped to the forefront of museums that educate through fun, interactive
programs, both at the Museum and in the community. The Aviation Learning Center
recently opened its doors to school and youth groups from around Puget Sound, offering
an utterly unique and engaging introduction to the principles of ight and the exciting
world of the general-aviation pilot. Students of all ages can now take ight in a safe, cost-
effective and educational environment.
I am also proud of the growth of the Museums Library & Archives. I believe that a great
museum must have a great library and archives. The acquisitions and research done for the
Personal Courage Wing have made the already extensive collection even deeper. Researchers
from around the world rely on our library and archives for the breadth and depth of
information available to any who care to enter. To list all the collections we have acquired
would take much more space than is allotted to me, but believe me when I say they are
world class.
There is more to come for the Museum in the year ahead. We are expanding our reach
to the north with the development of Future of Flight (formerly the National Flight
Interpretive Center) at Paine Field in Everett. My staff and I are working closely with The
Boeing Company and Snohomish County to create a unique visitor experience for this new
facility, and we look forward to watching our plans take shape over the months leading up
to an early fall opening.
The Museum is also expanding to the south. Our purchase of the Champlin Fighter
Collection made our dream of the Personal Courage Wing a reality, but it also created a
new opportunity for us to reopen the former Champlin Fighter Museum in Mesa, Ariz.,
in a new guise. Although many details remain to be worked out, look for the new Arizona
Museum of Flight to open in the coming months featuring the fascinating story of the jet
ghter and those who ew it. We are thrilled at the prospect of engaging the many aviation
enthusiasts who live in and visit the Phoenix area.
I am anticipating a fantastic year at the Museum, and I am excited to share it with each
and every one of you. It is a privilege to serve this ne institution and its members.
Ralph A. Bufano
President and CEO
Dear Museum Member,
On the cover
Ashley Elliott and Jessica Arthur of
Orchard Heights Elementary School, Port Orchard, Wash.,
share a moment of discovery in the Aviation Learning
Center with instructor and Museum docent John Storz.
Bill Mohn photo.
CONTENTS
Flight Plans .................................................. 47
Museum Notes ............................................. 89
The Cub and Me .............................................10
Restoring History .............................................11
The Power of One ...........................................11
Curators Corner ....................................... 1213
Waypoints .......................................................14
Aeronautica ....................................................15
Volunteer Profile .............................................16
Sky Without Limits ..........................................17
Family Fun Workshops .....................................19
Visitors Guide .......................................... 2022
Calendar .........................................................23
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PUBLICATION CREDITS
Editor
Craig ONeill
Managing editor
Candice Tewell
Staff columnists
Ralph A. Bufano, Andrea DeLaRosa,
Michael Friedline, Cory Graff, Eden Hopkins and Dennis
Parks
Staff contributors
Lauren Biddle, Cheryl Dart, Mandy
Davis, Seth Margolis and Harold Rubin
Design and layout
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THE FINE PRINT
Aloft is published bimonthly by the Museum of Flight
Foundation. We welcome your comments on this pub-
lication. Please write to
Aloft, The Museum of Flight,
9404 East Marginal Way South, Seattle, WA 98108-
4097 or e-mail
aloft@museumofflight.org.
©2004 Museum of Flight Foundation. All rights
reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without
permission is prohibited.
Volume 27, Number 1
Jan/Feb 2005 4 Aloft
Flight Plans
Mustangs over Europe
Saturday, January 15, 2:00 p.m.
William M. Allen Theater
Three 8th Air Force pilots who ew P-51
Mustangs over the war-torn European
countryside during World War II share
their incredible stories to kick off the
Museums 2005 public programs calendar.
Clinton Burdick is Americas only second-
generation ghter ace. During World War
I, his father, Howard Burdick, was credited
with eight aerial victories ying Sopwith
Camels with the 17th Aero Squadron.
Twenty-six years later, ying with the 361st
Fighter Squadron, 356th Fighter Group
out of Martlesham, England, the younger
Burdick tallied ve-and-a-half con rmed
aerial victories.
Joining Burdick will be John Hauff, who
ew from Fowlmere, England, with the
503rd Fighter Squadron, 339th Fighter
Group. During his tour of duty, Hauff
earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and
ve Air Medals. Rounding out the panel
is Alden Rigby, who was inducted into the
American Fighters Aces Association only in
2000 when the Aces Victory Con rmation
Board nally credited him with four
victories from battles that occurred more
than thirty- ve years before. Rigby, who
ew with the 487th Fighter Squadron,
352nd Fighter Group out of Bodney,
England, was credited with two victories
during the war, bringing his of cial total
to six.
The programwhich is jointly
sponsored by the Northwest Friends of the
American Fighter Aces and the Northwest
Chapter of the Distinguished Flying Cross
Societywill be moderated by historian
Mike Lavelle. All the panelists will sign
autographs following the discussion.
The First
Blue Angel:
Butch Voris
Saturday, January
22, 2:00 p.m.
William M. Allen
Theater
Each summer the
Navys Blue Angels come to town and amaze
Seattleites with their precise, high-speed, low-
altitude aerobatics over Lake Washington.
Todays Blues come from a long line of pilots
dating back to shortly after the end of World
War II, when the Navys rst of cial ight
demonstration team was founded. Cmdr.
Roy Butch Voris, USN (Ret.), was the
of cer personally chosen in 1946 by Adm.
Chester Nimitz to organize and train the
Navys best pilots and to make them Blue
Angels. He is pro led in Robert Wilcoxs new
book, First Blue: The Story of World War II Ace
Butch Voris and the Creation